God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

The best an idea gets is when its in your head.